Noel & Via

Yey! Please go out and buy this month's issue of PC Magazine Philippines. Thanks to my colleague William, who is a regular contributing editor of PC Mag, I got to write my first magazine article. He asked the editorial assistant to contact me for an article. And last month I typed away my first "how-to" article about editing and enhancing photos. Our dog Lupo made a special appearance in the article. :)

You'll find my article in the "Solutions" section of the magazine.. and I think I was the only local writer in that section. They're asking me to write again next month. The topic I will probably write about is how to design your blog.

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Aren't they yummy? Thanks to my husband and of course our friends at Substance!
Check out Substance for yourself at 4F The Podium.
So you can have Substance too! :)

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A couple of friends of ours (Padu, Charl, Johnsy, Mika) opened their store last week at the 4th floor of The Podium. Substance carries shoes and bags for women. They asked me to do some illustrations for them (pictured above). If you visit Podium in Ortigas Center, it will be hard to miss these posters. We were there at their soft launch and launch, we felt like we were part owners.. hehe. Congrats to the Substance team! Sell! Sell! Sell!

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I spent quite some time today backing up and upgrading our blog.. and Via is probably rolling her eyes why I choose to do this over my freelance projects.. hehe. I have fun doing these little challenging things with good quick results. A small version upgrade from MT 3.1 to MT 3.2 took me quite a while to do.. but it was worth it, the blog control panel (what you can't see and what we use to type in stuff) looks much better now. And you also may have noticed the new template. Although it is getting better, I still plan to design a new one.. So please bear with us as we make the change, emails and comments are welcome if you see any bugs. :)

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Via and I started our 10 hour drive to Vigan last saturday, stayed overnight and left for Fort Ilocandia after breakfast. There we met up with our family who took the overnight bus. Fort Ilocandia was fun.. swimming, food, day trip to Laoag City, riding the ATV, and just lounging around!

Click on the photo to see the whole set or click on the link below:
Photos posted in Flickr

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During the CTIA wireless 2006 conference in Las Vegas BlogStar was launched to the public. In this event we are launching with Sprint as our carrier and premiering our own in-house developed Palm application software that allows the stars to easily publish their blogs and send it to their subscribers.

The last couple of weeks were very busy as you can imagine. We had undergone testing and re-testing for our wap site to be certified and included in sprint's vision home deck (their built in home page on the phones). And then we refined and added features to our website. Our counterparts from the states were not spared, as most of them had to go sleepless for days.

But it seems to be a success in promoting our service. A lot of news surfaced today. Now time for some R&R!!!

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